Re: Thanks for this...

bluandyelo,

Well, I've been having problems with my gallbladder and similar pain for several years now. About 2 years ago I was in so much pain I couldn't take it anymore. I had been on Curezone, done a half dozen Liver Flushes and none of them did me any good, I only got dehydrated and nauseous. I had been taking Epsom Salts like you are and I also took Gold Coin Grass from Julia Chang. But none of those things were helping anymore. I decided to go have my gallbladder out.

They did several ultrasounds and found nothing. Then they did a HIDA scan which checks how well the gallbladder is emptying. They found it was working at 11%. So, my gastro approves the gallbladder surgery and I show up in the surgeons office. He's in his late 60's and has seen everything. He says, "there are no stones, and the pain you describe sounds like something else. I want your doctor to do an ERCP." Fine, I was so pissed off.

So, they did the ERCP and found that my common bile duct wasn't emptying at all. So they went ahead and did the sphincerotomy at that time. Of course, I got pancreatitis and ended up in the hospital for a week. But then I was OK. The pain went away for almost two years. I still had problems with it, but I'd just take GCG and I would be OK.

Then about 4 months ago I started having a different kind of pain. In the center of my stomach. We thought it was an ulcer, but the endoscopy was OK. Anyway to make a long story short, I woke up one morning and I knew the pain I was in was pancreatitis. I went straight to the hospital, and though I had normal blood readings, I showed inflammation in my pancreas on a CT scan.

They are not sure what caused the pancreatitis, but they have a pretty good idea that either a gallstone got stuck in the common bile duct, or that the sphincter of Oddi is now affection my Pancreas. As I had been having gallbladder pain just before the pancreatic pain, I'm betting on the gallstone.

So, here I am back at Curezone. I now know why the Liver Flushes never did anything for me, I only show sludge in my GB and my sphincter is too tight. I am probably a bad candidate for doing Liver Flushes at this time, the last thing I need is more Gallstones heading down the common bile duct.

I just went in yesterday to have what's called an Endoscopic Ultrasound to see if they can find out what's wrong, but I kept waking up on the table and I have to go back next week and have them do it again, this time with general anesthesia. What a pain in the butt.

But until then, I plan to start back up with Epsom Salts (in capsules) and I'm going to try to get some GCG without alcohol in it. Currently, the GCG tincture bothers my pancreas.

So, there's my story, I was going to post it centrally, and ask Telman for his (her?) input.

And I may still do that.

Nan